General pitching coach Kazuhisa Kawaguchi told reporters the team will continue to useShun Tono as a reliever despite the fact that he gave up a walk-off hit in the bottom of the 9th last night.

"There's no point in being pessimistic," said Yamaguchi. "If we're going to do this, we're going to see it through to the end. We'll continue to use him [as a reliever]."

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Michihiro Ogasawara started last night's game from the bench. Nikkan Sports notes that it was a first time since 6/27/2010 (vs Yokohama), while Sponichi says that it was a first for Ogasawara since he joined the Giants in 2007 (at least for reasons not related to injury or games that didn't really matter).